114 Wash. 2d 465 - Mota v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably 121 Wash. 2d 22 - State v. Riley (1993), 120 Wash. 2d 156 - State v. Coria (1992)
3 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Plyler v. Doe · Bearden v. Georgia · McGinnis v. Royster · 106 Wash. 2d 54 - State v. Gunwall
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be reduced by earned early release time in accordance with procedures that shall be developed and promulgated by the correctional agency having jurisdiction in which the offender is confined. The earned early release time shall be for good behavior and good performance, as determined by the correctional agency having jurisdiction.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“For offenders sentenced to incarceration in a state institution, the statute gives the authority to grant good time only to the DOC [Department of Corrections]. [Former] RCW 9.94A.150 states that the sentence is reduced in accordance with procedures developed and promulgated by the DOC. The DOC determines the standards of good behavior and good performance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“differently from those who serve[d] the entire sentence either in county jail or in a state institution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.